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Hospitality Services has been informed that stu-

dents have been stealing extra food from the Hangar by hid-ing it in Pizza Hut boxes and checking out without paying for it.

Hospitality Services de-vised a strategy to combat the problem after hearing about it, according to executive di-

Students hiding food in the Hangar, staff cracking downAlan HieberNews [email protected]

rector of Hospitality Services Haitham Shtaieh.

“We’ve increased our staff on the floor, an extra pair of eyes if you will, just to help deter some of these activities,” said Shtaieh.

Hospitality Services is at-tempting to identify the indi-viduals taking the extra food, according to Shtaieh.

“The one thing that we are trying to do is identify those individuals by name so we can take those names and turn them into Support Services or Student Conduct. Then the Office of Student Conduct will deal with these students ac-cording to Wright State poli-cy,” Shtaieh said.

There was a similar prob-

lem in the Union Market that was not as prevalent like the issue this semester. Students had grabbed food in the Union market and consumed as they wandered around, leaving the cashiers with empty contain-ers. The fix was simple: pay for the food before eating it.

This situation hurts custom-ers who are honest, according

to Shtaieh.“The byproduct of all this

is that it might cause an in-convenience to the rest of the customer base,” said Shtaieh. “If we know that people are, for example, putting an order of wings inside of a pizza box, the cashiers have to be forced to ask customers to open them up.”

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Food theft on campus

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3OPINION

The thought that I keep going back to over my

college career, and have more than once considered writing about, is how our generation is so incredibly casual and cavalier when it comes dating and every-thing that comes along with it.

We are a generation of hook-ups, not always in the strictly sexual way, mind you. Very rare-ly, in my own experience and second hand experience that I have been privy to, are people asked out on an actual date. In the most blunt and straightfor-ward words “Hey, I find you in-teresting and intriguing and I would like to take you out on a date on [insert day].”

What usually happens is more along the line of “Hey, ya wanna

I remember days when I stayed up past bedtime

reading books for fun, but now I try and get as much sleep as I can. I remember reading fero-ciously, one book after the other, and now I can barely muscle through the textbook readings I’ve been assigned for class. They’re dense, the text is small and for some reason the scholar who wrote it thinks it will ben-efit me in innumerable ways!

I’ve met several other col-

Our generation and our ambivalence to dating

The college curse: Saying goodbye to recreational reading

Leah Schneider Contributing [email protected]

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hang out?” Don’t get me wrong hanging out is fun. It’s not as formal and doesn’t have all the pressures that can come with going out on an actual date. I know I am much more comfort-able watching a funny/scary/action-packed movie and just talking about whatever comes to mind than sitting across a table from someone I hardly know. First dates can be awk-ward. There’s just so much anxiety there. Are you eat-ing too fast? Are they having a good time? Can you make that joke about tapas? What do you wear? Can you act too excited? Or not excited enough?

The list of stress-inducing date questions could go on and on. So, yes, casually hanging out is typically a better time. But what about after? Then there is always the massive white el-

lege students who are just like me. “I’ll read when I have time,” they say. “Maybe this Christmas, or for spring break.” How sad is it that we can’t even read for pleasure anymore because we simply don’t have time? We’re too bogged down with academic texts that enjoyable reading has somehow become a rare occur-rence that only happens on the holidays—if we’re lucky.

Free time that was previously spent reading is now dedicated to our friends and family, be-cause we’re fortunate if we make time for them after our

ephant that goes back and forth wondering if it was a ‘date’ or not. It’s almost never explicitly outlined.

What is that? Why is our gen-eration so ambivalent when it comes to dating? Even now, I am hesitant to type the word ‘dating’ because I don’t want to just throw out this ambiguous term that we don’t even fully understand anymore. Hanging out, talking, you know, stuff. All that grey-area-fuzzy stuff that just floats around between two people. As fun as spontaneity and the deep mystical unknown can be, sometimes just being in the know when it comes to the people you spend your time with is a nice treat.

18 credit hours, job and intern-ship (Throw eating and sleep-ing in there somewhere). The reality is a shame, it’s true, but part of me wants to resist real-ity. We can’t let the textbooks get us down. We have to make time—somehow, some way—to read for pleasure. Whether that is reading your Kindle while standing in line for coffee at Tim Horton’s, or reading a chap-ter before you hit the hay, find a way.

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Dear Mandy, I was sitting in the stall the other day, trying to make poo poo, and someone walked in. They just stood outside my stall door...I could see their feet! I had to go so bad, but also was severely creeped out. Thoughts?-Constipated Caroline

Disclaimer: Ask Mandy is satirical and intended for humorous purposes. The views and opinions reflected are

those of Mandy, not The Guardian as an organization.

Dear Constipated Caroline,My bowels feel for you. I can closely relate to your ex-perience, as this happened to me just the other day. I was sitting comfortably on a toilet on the fourth floor of Millett—a safe zone, I thought—when someone entered and I believed that this person had a disturb-ing fetish. Therefore, I wasn’t about to satisfy them. I held it in for the next twenty minutes until they gave up and left. This is a very real problem, and I need you to know that you are not alone. School poopers all over campus are struggling with the same problem as us.Love,Mandy

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Dear Mandy,My girlfriend has recently told me after I proposed that she has not read the Harry Potter books nor has she seen any Star Wars movie. How do I tell her she’s not the one for me after discovering that?Need-advice-Neil

Need-advice-Neil,I would do the same thing if I were in your shoes. Star Wars and Harry Potter are staples in our genera-tion, so someone who hasn’t enjoyed either of them should automatically be questioned. My advice is to break it to her gently, or kindly suggest that you watch Star Wars together on a cold, winter day. For Christmas you could buy her the Harry Potter books. Maybe she’ll take the hints and you won’t have to break up with her after all. Good luck!Love,Mandy

p.s. Count your lucky stars you have a fiance at all!


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about academic integrity. The UCIE offers UVC classes specially tailored to new un-dergraduate international students that continues the academic integrity education process.

As a recent addition, be-ginning this fall all new in-ternational students will participate in an additional orientation program that tests students on scenarios involving academic integrity, known as the Office of Com-munity Standards and Stu-dent Conduct’s Academic In-tegrity Orientation Program.

“Students enrolled in this program take a ‘test’ through Pilot that features a number of scenario-based questions related to academic integrity. The UCIE reserved computer labs and promoted the Aca-demic Integrity Orientation Program to our students,” Henderson said.

Dr. Gary Dickstein, assis-tant vice president for Stu-dent Affairs, described part of what could be the poten-tial problem with any rough transitions that may occur.

“The issue is that in sev-eral countries, it is a com-mon practice to basically use other people’s materials and not give credit. In some places it is a sign of respect that you are using other peo-ple’s work, whether you cite

NEWS

Some international stu-dents are well-versed in

the nature of research at U.S. universities, while some are less familiar with the system used in those universities and at Wright State.

It is imperative for all stu-dents, from both around here and from other countries, to understand their academic integrity.

Jonathon Henderson, di-rector for international

student support services and programs in the University Center for International Edu-cation, explained that inter-national students begin their studies at Wright State with varying levels of preperation and knowledge of college life.

“There are certainly inter-national students who have run into issues with violation of the academic integrity pol-icy at Wright State, much in the same way that domestic

Understanding the differences between academic policies in the U.S. and other countries part 2

students have,” Henderson said. “When working with international students in re-gard to academic integrity it is essential to understand that different countries and cultures view and use things like citations and collabora-tive or group work in differ-ent ways than in the U.S.”

Consequently, according to Henderson, it is important to provide opportunities to educate all students about the correct way to approach their studies at Wright State.

Henderson described some of the programs of-fered by the UCIE, all of which provide assistance in learning about the academic integrity systems of the U.S.

“The UCIE brings in speak-ers from Wright State’s Office of Community Standards and Student Conduct to our new student orientations,” Hen-derson said. “Additionally, new international students participate in additional ed-ucation sessions in the sec-ond day of orientation that feature multimedia presen-tations and interactions with senior students and staff members in regard to what academic integrity means in the U.S.”

As an extension from the orientation sessions offered, students can also take class-es that incorporate learning

Taylor McKinleyNews [email protected]

“Of the percent-age of those students overall who are get-ting caught, at least

half are international students.”

“There is an in-crease of the number of students who are

getting caught cheat-ing every year over-

all.”

it appropriately or not. Then there is the whole concept of understanding what plagia-rism actually means. Even though we have a definition, part of the concern is that if you do not understand Eng-

lish very well. That’s a prob-lem,” Dickstein said.

During every UCIE orien-tation of each semester, rep-resentatives from the office and from the writing center discuss with incoming stu-dents what is and is not ac-ceptable in the academic realm. Another major factor lies in culture. Dickstein ex-plained some of his experi-ences in the Office of Com-munity Standards.

“Part of what we deal with culturally is that there is a significant pressure on inter-national students to succeed. In some cases, they are pay-ing double the amount of tu-ition. Their family may have invested every dime they have in their success,” Dick-stein said. “That is a lot of

pressure, and it is a ‘succeed at any cost’ type of attitude. So if a student comes in and they are struggling, for what-ever reason, but they know they have to succeed, the risk is outweighed by the benefit if they can get away with it.”

Dickstein has been work-ing closely with several de-partments to create differ-ent tools and solutions for increasing awareness of the importance of academic in-tegrity.

“There is an increase of the number of students who are getting caught cheating every year overall, and of the percentage of those stu-dents overall who are getting caught, at least half are inter-national students,” Dickstein said.

There have been enough international students iden-tified as responsible for cheating that Dickstein and company have looked into creating the aforementioned courses and partnering with different areas on campus that help international stu-dents be successful.

Additional efforts being made include getting some of the policies and information translated into Arabic, Chi-nese and other potential lan-guages to post on the Office of Community Standard’s website.

Photo by: Lindsey Roberts


5NEWS

The I-675 pedestrian bridge that will con-

nect Fairborn and Beaver-creek is currently being built on schedule with an estimat-ed completion time of May 2015.

“It comes out of campus, and [students would] have to cross at the stoplight across Colonel Glenn Highway. The road is Center Park Drive, which is in Fairborn. There’s a sidewalk along the west side of that road, and they would follow the sidewalk up to the where the Holiday Inn is. That’s where the ac-tual path is going to start. Then they would take the path that would have a little curve in it and it would go

Wright State students in need of emergency

assistance could be eligible for several different funding sources within the Student Emergency Assistance Pro-gram, created by university ombudsperson Hazel Roun-tree.

Funds included in the Pro-gram include the Continuing Education Fund, the Gradua-tion Fund, the International Education Student Assis-tance Fund, the Veteran Stu-dent Assistance Fund and the Student Support Services Emergency Fund.

The Continuing Education Fund and the Graduation

Pedestrian bridge updates bring walkway closer to completion

Student Emergency Assistance Program to help students through funding

Alan HieberNews [email protected]

Taylor McKinleyNews [email protected]

up a big ramping structure,” Beavercreek city engineer Jeff Moorman said.

Once across the bridge, which crosses a skew over I-675 and then come in along Sam’s Club property on the Beavercreek side, there will be path the pedestrian could continue walking.

“We’re going to build a path from where the bridge ends back to Pentagon Boulevard,” Moorman said.

One of the primary moti-vations behind building the bridge was to ensure the safety of pedestrians and bicyclists who lacked appro-priate options to cross I-675.

“If you want to go from Wright State to Beavercreek right now, the only crossing you have over the interstate

Fund were designed specifi-cally to help Wright State stu-dents to stay in school.

The criteria to qualify for each fund differs. For each program, all funding is done independently and each have their own criteria.

Another fund available is the Student Support Services Emergency Fund, a small-term fund for an immediate, imminent emergency. As an example, a student who needs to call AAA for getting locked out of their car would have the fund to help the stu-dent pay for the expenses in-curred for this service. A staff member is on-call 24 hours a day as well.

Students can legally be eli-gible for more than one fund-

is Fairfield Road over I-675, which is a very busy street,” said Moorman. “It’s not very conducive to pedestrians and bicyclist. The other choice is Grange Hall Road over I-675. It’s a little better, but it’s still not a very safe area.”

Steepness can be a prob-lem for pedestrians who use wheelchairs, but the bridge takes this issue into account with a series of flat areas laid among the steeper slopes. People in wheelchairs can rest on those areas.

“It’s going to be 100 per-cent compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act,” Moorman said.

ing source depending upon their circumstances.

Rountree, who has a back-ground in counseling, de-scribed her approach to solv-ing problems at WSU.

“I’m always about resolu-tion. If you start off positive, you usually always have a positive ending,” Rountree said.

Rountree’s responsibilities

as university ombudsperson vary from day to day. Her job responds to faculty, staff and students, who individually use their own processes for resolving issues.

In creating the Program, Rountree wanted to gath-er all the different funding sources together and sim-plify the process for students to identify what is available

for them and to get the help they need in varying circum-stances.

The support sources still work independently, but make a user-friendly ap-proach when put into one brochure and one system, for students to find out where they can get particular assis-tances.

Photo by: Lindsey RobertsPedestrian bridge progress over I-675


6 WRIGHT LIFE

It comes as no surprise that hacking plays a

prominent role in the vir-tual world. One example is the recent celebrity photo leak which released nude photos of several celebri-ties taken from the virtual storage space known as the cloud. What about hackers who pose security threats or those who commit identity theft?

When I checked my email. I had 8,120 unread or saved messages, from junk mail to e-bills. I never take the time to filter out what is needed and what should go in the

Hacked: Protecting personal information in the digital ageLindsay McGrathContributing [email protected]

trash. But what happens when a hacker logs on to Wright States wireless in-ternet and gains access to that email account, as well as personal information, saved passwords, photos and other sensitive information? Poten-tially, identities could be sto-len, Twitter accounts could become advertisement tools and whereabouts could be easily pieced together from the content in our emails.

“I have always been cau-tious of the information I store on computers, whether private or public, and espe-cially my phone,” said Chel-sea Cooper, a senior nursing student at WSU. “My dad put

cyber safety in my mind at a young age, and it’s some-thing I think our generation is so ignorant about. I mean, hackers aren’t brilliant but rather socially intelligent. A college campus is perfect for a hacker. Our library would be a hacker’s paradise.”

Cooper is one of a few who have cyber protection ingrained into their every-day lives, but what about the majority of college students? Based on news reports, so-cial media and simple every-day interactions, it is easy to see what is important when hacking is the subject at hand.

When a WSU sociol-

Kyle Adams knew he wanted to be on stage when he saw a production of “Cinderella” in the sixth grade. Hailing

from New Orleans, Adams went to a performing arts high school where he began learning the basics. It wouldn’t be for several more years and a transfer that Adams would land at Wright State University with a lead role in “Hot Mikado.”

“Wright State is unique,” Adams said. “Most pro-grams make you focus either on ballet or jazz, but here you don’t do that. You get ballet, jazz and modern dance s e v -eral

t i m e s a week. We have at least four to five hours of dancing a day.”

Adams explained that theatre and dance programs at many universities have trouble working together, but that has not been his experience at WSU. As a dancer, Adams has also starred in musicals for the past four years, and has even had the opportunity to take voice lessons and acting, which he de-scribes as “rare.”

“WSU gave me a solid foundation,” Adams said. “We still had to take math and English, sadly, and as much as it sucked, it was still good for me. The classes we take every day—yeah, they’re about getting better, strengthening yourself and im-proving—but they also really focus on teaching you to do things efficiently, properly and healthy.”

Adams described his past injuries as “petite” compared to many dancers who might struggle with busting their hip or

Dancer and future gypsy: Kyle Adams, lead in “Hot Mikado,” defines the process of danceLeah [email protected]

blowing out a knee.“The process can be so frustrating,” Adams said. “Rehears-

ing for “Hot Mikado” was grueling and tiring, but sometimes it can be really fun to go in and not worry about the end prod-uct and just play around to figure things out. On the other hand, sometimes I just want the end product. I want to be

great, and I don’t want to have to work for it!”Adams described the process of choreographing

as a double-edged sword. Communicating a vision to ten dancers can be difficult.

“Is your vision even human-ly possible?” Adams asked.

“ I t ’ s fun to

play, be-cause they

could totally mess everything up, but then I think, ‘Actually, I like what you’re doing better. Let’s keep that.’”

Liking the process is necessary, Adams explained. “You have to like being in the studio and in rehearsal, because that’s 90 percent of your career, and the last little percentage is on the stage. That’s the icing on the cake.”

Adams has come a long way from the “super awkward” am-ateur who didn’t know his left from his right. After spending the summer working as a dancer at Cedar Point, Adams is looking to the future.

“My dream job is to be a Broadway gypsy. A gypsy means a chorus member who bounces from show to show. I’d dance my little heart out.”

“My dream job is to be a Broad-way gypsy... I’d dance my little

heart out.”

ogy class was asked about hacking, an overwhelming amount of responses were regarding nude photographs. Not one student brought up the recent identity thefts re-lated to WikiLeaks.

More serious threats should be a concern, espe-cially since they can affect both individuals and organi-zations, as well as national structures. Bruce Herrick, a 27-year-old graduate from the University of Dayton and current plans officer in the United States Army, said.

“The Army has in-depth cyber security training an-nually for every single indi-vidual,” said Herrick. “With

how smart and sketchy hack-ers are these days, whether you are in the military or not, it’s a threat to anyone with a computer, phone, and bank account to name a few.”

There are ways to take pre-cautions against hacking, in-cluding regular maintenance of email accounts, deleting unnecessary information, using and updating privacy settings for social media ac-counts and avoiding saving passwords on computers.

Photo by: Leah Kelley


7WRIGHT LIFE

Every November, Thanksgiving shoppers

all over the country flock to supermarkets to buy the traditional ingredients and foods to prepare for the an-nual feast. However, what some may not know is that there are many places that sell home-grown or locally-sourced versions of these same traditional Thanksgiv-ing staples, which are often cheaper and healthier com-pared to the food sold in chain stores. Here is a list of local markets, vendors, and shops in the Dayton area to cover any “Turkey Day” meal necessities.

2nd Street Market (downtown Dayton): Sec-ond street Market contains an array of vendors who sell home-grown and homemade Thanksgiving products. Mile Creek Farm, a small family farm located in New Leba-non, Ohio, grows potatoes, sweet potatoes and pump-kins. Each week, Mill Creek Farms brings this fresh pro-duce for sale at the market. Maple Run Farm, owned by the Zook Family in in Wil-

Looking local for ThanksgivingFrom turkeys to pumpkin pies, finding holi-day staples close to home

Zara QureshiFeatures [email protected]

liamsburg, Ind., is known for its green beans, which are sold at 2nd street. Stop at Desserts by Ann and you can find local baker Ann Ke-nion, who sells apple, pump-kin and sweet potato pies, as well as other desserts made from scratch. The E.A.T. Food for Life vendor sells holiday turkeys, which were raised on a chemical free, non-genetically modified farm in Yorkshire, Ohio. Second Street Market is open Thurs-day and Friday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Paulus Butcher Shop County Market (Fairborn): At this local deli, fresh turkey and pies can be ordered. Re-viewers say the food is high quality at a good price. How-ever, the shop has a limited time to order turkeys. Open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Ashley’s Pastry Shop (Oakwood): Pumpkin des-serts are quite popular on the holiday, but this family-owned bakery focuses on an-other autumn staple: apples. Ashley’s sells freshly-baked apple pies, apple strudel, apple dumplings and apple

danishes. Open Tuesday-Friday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Fairborn Farmer’s Mar-ket: This market near Wright State sells potatoes, winter squash and pumpkins. Open Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Yellow Springs Farmer’s Market: This is another farmer’s market that sells fresh and organic vegetables from local farms such as Patchwork Gardens, a farm that uses no chemicals or synthetic fertilizers to grow its produce and sells corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes at the market. Open Satur-days from 7:00 a.m. to noon.

The Fresh Market (West Chester): A more convenient option for some families to get their traditional Thanks-giving meals, the Fresh Mar-ket offers pre-cooked dishes like turkey, mashed potatoes with gravy, stuffing, corn bread, pumpkin and apple pies, cranberry sauce and even full holiday dinners made with fresh ingredients and prepped for pick-up. Pre-order online by 2 p.m. Mon-day through Thursday for next day pick-up.

Every year, during a time that many spend with

their families giving thanks, there are some in Dayton who do not have the same luxury. The Dayton Founda-tion, along with a few sup-portive businesses, offers a Thanksgiving meal for peo-ple who may be spending the holiday alone, are less fortu-nate or simply would like to enjoy a delicious meal during the holidays.

A “Feast of Giving”Andrea SchaafContributing [email protected]

The “Feast of Giving” will once again put a Thanks-giving meal on the table for Daytonians at the Dayton Convention Center. Thursday November 27, Thanksgiving Day, a Thanksgiving meal will be offered to anyone in-terested in stopping by from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. This event, headed by the Dayton Foun-dation, will run thanks to the support of Dayton’s Fox 45, ABC 22, RTA and about five hundred volunteers.

No tickets are required for this event and it is open to the public, a way for anyone in the Dayton area to enjoy Thanksgiving for free. Dona-tions can also be made to-wards the event or for future events through the Dayton Foundation.

Parking for this event will be free in the Convention Center’s garage. In addition, there will be free RTA and Project Mobility Transpor-tation from 9:30 a.m. until 3 p.m.

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Students dance for a cause


9SPORTS

After sitting out the final ten games last year when

he had his third concussion of the season, Griffin came out looking like his usual, spirited self last Friday in a game against Belmont.

And then with one collision, yet another season for Griffin was altered.

Griffin left last Friday’s game with another head injury; yet another blow to a head that has seen a few too many blows. The injury forced Griffin to finish the game from the locker room. He sat on the bench for Sunday’s game dressed more like an at-torney than a basketball player.

Last month, Griffin said he felt that he and WSU’s training staff have taken all the proper pre-cautions in avoiding any long-term health problems.

“It was frustrating but at the same time, basketball is not go-ing to be with me the rest of my life so it was important for me to take all the precautions,” Griffin. “I wasn’t pushing it. It was scary to get three in one year.”

While WSU played its best basketball of the season last year with Griffin on the bench, it was still a frustrating time for Griffin, as he wanted to be part of his team’s run to the Horizon League title game.

“It was not that fun. We were winning so that part was fun to be part of that. Going to the Horizon League Championship was fun,” Griffin said. “But it would suck to watch us lose and feel like I could have contribut-ed or even when we would win, I feel like I could have contrib-uted.”

WSU head coach Billy Donlon acknowledged that the team was trying to bring Griffin back to game shape slowly.

“He was released to do con-tact a long time ago but we just kept him away from that,” Don-lon said. “We didn’t think it was intelligent to have him do con-tact in the summer and early fall. I think for him, it will just be getting back with contact and dealing with things.”

Preparing for life after bas-ketball

When Griffin’s time ends with Wright State’s basketball team

Raider spotlight: Kendall Griffin has yet another season interruptedJustin BoggsSports [email protected]

later this season, he likely will not be going too far from the court. Griffin is planning on trading in his basketball uni-form for a tailored suit as he ventures into the world of law school.

Griffin is planning on going to IUPUI’s law school in his home state of Indiana in 2015 after he completes his biomedical engi-neering degree at WSU. While it seems like a dramatic change, according to Griffin, many com-panies are looking for attor-neys with scientific undergrad degrees to work in patent law. Work in patent law is quite lu-crative and could lead to a six-figure salary for Griffin.

When Griffin came to WSU, he was not sure what he wanted to do. At first, he was looking for a pharmacy program. And then he decided on biomedical engineering. After four years of studying biology and medicine, Griffin will begin reviewing court cases and the constitu-tion.

“I didn’t know what I was wanting to do so this kind of fell into my lap,” Griffin said. “I learned patent law requires an engineering undergrad.”

Griffin on defensePerhaps Griffin should be a

defense attorney rather than a patent attorney. The way Griffin plays, there might be a reason why he has taken a few blows in the head. Griffin is known as a tough defender and Donlon was looking forward to him guard-ing the opponent’s top guard.

Griffin, along with Matt Vest, created a tough defensive duo last season as the Raiders kept teams below their season aver-age in scoring more often than not. With Vest graduated and playing overseas, the job of guarding the other team’s top guard was supposed to rest with Griffin.

“You have to remember be-fore Matt Vest was All Defensive team, we had another guy that was his Batman to his Robin defensively who didn’t play the last 10 games of the season,” Donlon said.

Even with what happened last Friday, it is quite possible that Griffin will still be that tough-nose defender for the Raiders this season. But after four head injuries since the start of last season, it is possible the next time Griffin sees the court is in front of a judge.

Photo by: Allison RodriquezKendall Griffin against Belmont moments before he left the game

Oakland scored its even-tual game-winning goal

from a penalty kick in the 35th minute in Saturday’s Horizon League title game to defeat Wright State 2-1, ending the Raiders’ hopes to bring home their first league title.

Oakland’s penalty kick was awarded after WSU defender Emeka Ononye was called for a yellow card in the box. After WSU protested the call, Gerald Ben flicked the ball to the left of WSU goalkeeper Tyler Blackmer who dove in the other direction. The 35th-minute goal gave the Golden Grizzlies a 2-0 lead.

Oakland got off to a 1-0 start in the fifth minute off a free kick.

Wright State cut Oakland’s lead to 2-1 in the 73rd minute when Jake Stovall’s throw-in found the box, went off Sam De-Roy and to a wide-open Marquis Payton who put the ball behind Oakland goalkeeper Wes Mink.

“We responded pretty well,”

Men’s soccer: Controversial call dooms Wright State in title gameJustin BoggsSports [email protected]

WSU head coach Bryan Davis said. “Chasing the game down two goals is hard. The guys gave it all they have and I am proud of that but we had to be tougher. I think at the end of the day, we

left too many minutes on the field. We just weren’t able to match what they were bring-ing.”

WSU tried to rally in the fi-nal 17 minutes down a goal. Eric Lynch and Payton had at-tempts that just missed the net. After time expired, the crowd stormed the field at Oakland Soccer Field as the Grizzlies ad-vance to the NCAA Tournament.

Wright State’s season ended with a 12-7-2 record. This was the program’s winningest sea-son since 2001 and just the second time the program has

reached the Horizon League title game.

“We put ourselves in a cham-pionship game, we were still in it after a controversial call where it makes a different in the outcome, I think it has been an outstanding year,” Davis said. “These guys should be com-mended.”

The last time the Raiders went to the title game was in 2011, when this year’s seniors were just freshmen.

While Wright State loses eight seniors, one advantage the Raiders had this year was their depth. WSU returns Lynch who earned the Horizon League’s Player of the Year honors along with Peguy Ngatcha who was one of the league’s leading goal scorers. Wright State loses starters Ononye, Joakim Carls-son, Michael Hayes and Bryce Rockwell-Ashton.

“Our future is bright at Wright State,” Davis said. “Our seniors in their four years completely changed the program.”

“The guys gave it all they have and I am

proud of that but we had to be tougher.”


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Had things gone accord-ing to plan, Wright State

guard Kim Demmings would be the second player in program history with 2,000 points. At this point, it is unclear when Demmings will score her next points for WSU.

Just 90 seconds into WSU’s season, Demmings landed awk-wardly and left a game at Austin Peay last Friday with a season-ending leg injury. Demmings missed the rest of the weekend as the Raiders won at Austin Peay and then again at Lip-scomb on Sunday.

WSU head coach Mike Brad-bury confirmed Monday that after being evaluated when the team returned home, Dem-mings will have surgery Thurs-day and miss the entire season.

Demmings, who is on track to graduate in May with a bach-elor’s in organizational leader-

Women’s basketball: Raiders lose Demmings for rest of the seasonRaiders win twice without top scorerJustin BoggsSports [email protected] ship, can take a medical red-

shirt if she decides to and finish her senior season next year.

All of a sudden, WSU’s back-court that appeared to be one of the best in the Horizon League

is thin in experience. Joining Demmings on the bench are guards Abby Jump and Symone Denham. Denham was cleared for non-contact work last week.

The only true veteran back-court player WSU has remainng is Tay’ler Mingo. Mingo scored 30 points in WSU’s win over Lipscomb Sunday. Her week-end performance was enough to earn Horizon League Player of the Week honors.

“She was really good,” Brad-

bury said. “The way they were going to play us, they were go-ing to make her make plays and she responded to that and played very well.”

The response that Bradbury’s squad showed after losing its star player was exactly what the coach was looking for.

“I thought they responded well,” Bradbury said. “We didn’t have any time to prepare, she gets hurt a minute and a half into the first game so it didn’t give me a chance to change any-thing. I thought we stepped in and played with confidence.”

Having to use freshmen play-ers in big roles will be neces-siary to finish the season.

“Those kids are going to grow up a lot faster and they’re tal-ented enough to play,” Bradbury said.

Wright State returns home for a two-game home set start-ing with WSU’s home opener Thursday versus Murray State.

Wright State ended its season last weekend

with its first home win in three years against Green Bay, fol-lowed by a loss to Milwaukee on senior night.

The Raiders finished the sea-son 5-23 overall and 2-12 in Ho-rizon League play.

“At home, we had a lot of con-fidence, we knew against Green Bay we had a great chance to get our second (conference) win and we did that. We knew Mil-waukee would be tough, but we wanted to be competitive,” WSU head coach Susan Clements said.

The Raiders broke their 21 game home losing streak by sweeping the Phoenix 3-0 last Friday.

The next day, WSU lost to the Milwaukee 3-0. The Panthers finished the season second in the Horizon League.

The Panthers controlled the first set from start to finish, nev-er trailing in the set. Milwaukee

Wright State guard Chrishawn Hop-

kins was named the Horizon League’s Player of the Week Monday after he led the Raiders to a pair of wins last weekend after becoming the first Raider since Julius Mays in 2011-12 to score over 20 points in back-to-back games.

Hopkins scored 21 in WSU’s 73-70 win last Friday. He followed that effort with a 25-point performance Sunday in the Raiders’ 12-point victory over Ohio Dominican. Hopkins nearly played the entire 40 min-utes in Sunday’s game. He took a breather of less than a minute in the middle of the second half.

“I am kind of used to it, I am just getting into the groove,” Hopkins said.

Hopkins’ 25-point effort Sun-day marked his career high dat-ing back to his time at Butler.

“Like last year, some of the expectation level on what

Volleyball: WSU’s season comes to an end

Men’s basketball weekly notebook: Hopkins named Player of the Week

Greg FelderSports [email protected]

Justin BoggsSports [email protected]

won the set 25*17. The Raiders battled back in the second set with 14 ties and six lead chang-es. The Raiders were unable to reach set point and lost the sec-ond set 28-26.

Wright State began the third set well but hit a wall and lost the third and final set of the year 25-20.

Saturday marked the final match for seniors Ashley Lang-jahr and Samantha Daniel.

“They were apart of the fresh-men class when I took this pro-gram over and they were re-ally committed to what we were trying to do,” Clements said. “Sam’s a great teammate. She always worked hard and the girls looked to her as a leader. Ashley had some difficult inju-ries throughout her career, but fought back. She’s been a cap-tain for awhile and is a great ambassador for the team.”

The Raiders will return a lot of experience next year after graduating only two players and returning six freshmen who will have a year of playing experi-ence.

Chrishawn should do was un-fair,” WSU head coach Billy Don-lon said. “He hadn’t played in over a year, he joined a team in the middle of December with a veteran group that had every-one back.”

With WSU regularly playing five seniors last season, Donlon was not as patient with Hop-kins.

“To be fair, you weren’t going to allow Chrishawn to play five games to play through things,” Donlon said. “That would have been unfair to that team last year. Now, he knows that ‘I am going to be out there.’”

Replacing GriffinWith WSU guard Kendall Grif-

fin being forced out of the line-up last Friday with a head in-jury, junior college transfer Joe Thomasson took Griffin’s spot in the starting lineup Sunday.

Thomasson played in 38 min-utes in Sunday’s game scoring 15 points and grabbing eight rebounds in just his second Di-vision I contest.

“I don’t look at it as starting, we look at it as stepping up,” Thomasson said. “It is going to take more than one person

“I can’t be more proud of the energy and the belief of this

group.”

to pick up (Griffin’s) effort. His energy, just being around us, he picks us up.”

Having 15 rebounds in his last two games is a big improvement for Thomasson over having just one defensive rebound in an ex-hibition game against Findlay on Nov. 5.

“I played the most minutes and I only had one defensive rebound,” Thomasson said. “Coach chewed me out after the game. He said my performance on hitting the glass was ‘soft.’ He said with the skill set and ath-leticism I have, one rebound is not good enough.”

C-ya laterWSU starts a six-game road

trip today at Bowling Green at 4 p.m. The Raiders hit the road with a 2-0 record and will not be at the Nutter Center again until Dec. 7 versus Urbana.

Having a good start to the sea-son was important for the Raid-ers given the tough road ahead.

“It is definitely important to always protect our home court,” Hopkins said. “For us to get a good win on Friday and then to turn around and to turn around and get another win, it was good

for our team. It gives us confi-dence and as long as we keep rolling, we will be alright.”

Donlon will get an idea of how tough his squad is over the next six games as WSU travels twice to South Carolina during the road trip.

“Certainly we will find out on the road their ability to have a business-like approach, their ability to stay excited for the game and attention to detail,” Donlon said. “We’re going to learn a lot about ourselves.”

Photo by: Nick HoffmanChrishawn Hopkins


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ment stores and malls in the wee hours of the morn-ing after Thanksgiving to be the first to take advan-tage of extremely marked down prices on “Black Friday.” Many stores par-ticipate in this annual holi-day sale and are crowded all day with shoppers snagging deals on elec-tronics, jewelry and other big-ticket items. Although many people go Black Fri-day shopping, some do not because they would rather avoid the large crowds or because the deals are not as good as expected, like WSU senior Adrienne Davenport.

“I went two years ago and I thought there was going to be all these deals, but there really weren’t,” said Davenport. “I heard [stores] actually raise prices because there are so many buyers. There are a lot of lines and too many people and it’s not worth it unless you’ve been saving a lot of mon-ey.”

Some individuals do not

Black Friday shopping on Thanksgiving Day?Zara QureshiFeatures [email protected]

mind shopping on Black Friday as they have found good deals and actu-ally find the chaos of the stores to be fun. WSU Junior Diana Gross said

that “the atmosphere was exciting and the sales were good” and freshman Jus-tice Knight, who goes ev-ery year, said Black Friday is “chaotic and traumatiz-ing, but fun” and found a great deal on a phone one year.

Black Friday has not typically interfered with Thanksgiving Day in the past, as the sales usually begin the morning after. However, in the past few years, sales have inter-fered with Thanksgiving for some, as many stores now open on Thursday, some as early as 5 p.m. Employees of these stores must work on the holiday

instead of having dinner at home with their families. A few stores such as Barnes & Noble, GameStop, Cost-co and Marshall’s have stuck to the traditional Fri-day opening and refuse to open on Thanksgiving in order to let their employ-ees spend time with their families. Gross also shared her views about stores opening on Thanksgiving.

“It changes the flow of it being a family-oriented holiday to focusing

it on shopping instead.”

1. Miami Val-ley area resi-dents woke up to a win-ter wonder-

land on the ground Monday marking one of the earliest significant snowstorms to hit the area creating havoc for officials.

In Fairborn, the town is fac-ing a salt shortage that could result in frequent school delays and dangerous road-ways. The city only received a portion of the salt it request-ed.

In a typical winter, Fair-born uses 2,600 tons of salt to melt snow on roads. Be-cause of increased demand and reduced supply, Fairborn only managed to get 2,200 tons of salt with no hope of replenishing its supply.

With winter getting off to an early start, Fairborn is looking at creative solutions to combat the salt shortage. Fairborn Public Services su-pervisor Sean Sink said the city will add beet juice to the salt it is spreading.

“Salt needs moisture for it

to work to generate heat. As you get below 25 degrees, salt loses its effectiveness because it loses its ability to gather moisture,” Sink said. “The colder the temperature, the less moisture is in the air. By pre-wetting the salt, it coats the salt with some moisture immediately so it starts melting as soon as it hits the ground.”

Sink said the city will rare-ly be able to salt residential streets and Sink will have his crews focus on main roads such as Colonel Glenn High-way.

While Fairborn and Bea-vercreek decided to shut down their schools for the day, Wright State remained open Monday as crews worked to clear the roads and sidewalks around the university. The National Weather Service reported a 4-inch snowfall in Fairborn Sunday night into Monday morning.

Temperatures this week are well below the average high of 51 degrees. More typical November weather is supposed to return later this week.

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Fairborn faces salt shortage as snow-storm strikesJustin BoggsWeather [email protected]

“I think it’s pretty crappy,” Gross said. “It’s greedy of the stores to try to get peo-ple to work on Thanksgiv-ing when for a lot of people that is one of two guaran-teed holidays, along with Christmas, they are going to get off.”

Christmas often becomes associated with Black Fri-day because many shoppers take advantage of the deals to buy Christmas gifts. With stores opening on Thanks-giving, some are not only thinking about Christmas shopping earlier, but on an-other holiday. Junior Renee Swallow does not think it is right for people to go Christ-mas shopping on Thanks-giving.

“It makes me mad,” Swal-low said. “I don’t think about Christmas until after Thanksgiving. I think every-one should take the chance

to spend time with their family.”

Davenport also thinks that people should spend time with family and

not Christmas shopping on Thanksgiving,

“It’s not necessary to shop on Thanksgiving,” Daven-port said. “It changes the flow of it being a family-oriented holiday to focus-ing it on shopping instead. It seems excessive. The last item on your mind should be buying non-food prod-ucts and a new pair of shoes on Thanksgiving.”

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